Bring your enduro bike or your XC bike and enjoy some of the fun black diamond downhills in Santiago Oaks and a good workout climbing back up.
Check out my YouTube video of this route:
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The route starts at the end of Jamboree Road (after crossing E. Santiago Canyon Rd) where you come to a large gate. Pass through the gate and go downhill on a fire road about 0.25 miles until you see a singletrack entrance on your left. Take the singletrack and where it ends, take a left to head toward a wash.
After crossing the wash, take a left onto
Roadrunner Loop Trail. Stay on
Roadrunner Loop until you get to a junction and take a left to get to the
Chutes trailhead (you'll see a log for practicing and a kiosk with a map). Cross another wash to start climbing
Chutes trail. At the fork of
Chutes trail and
Chutes Ridgeline trail (these are marked), make sure you stay left to take
Chutes trail, as
Chutes Ridgeline trail is a downhill trail.
Chutes is a one-mile singletrack climb with 400 feet of elevation gain. It ends at
Barham Ridge (marked). Take a right onto
Barham Ridge Trail and then take the first left onto
Cactus Point Trail (marked). Enjoy a nice moderate singletrack flow trail down hill to get your downhill warmup. There are a couple of jumps and rocks you can take and lots of switchbacks.
At the bottom of the trail, take a right onto
Bumble Bee trail and then a left to go across a wash and start climbing up
Bumble Bee (marked).
Bumble Bee climb is 0.4 miles and 200 feet of elevation gain. When you get to the top, go straight (and slightly left) to find
Grasshopper Trail (marked).
Grasshopper Trail starts with a short climb and then becomes a rocky downhill. This is rated a Difficult trail, but has plenty of B lines (follow the markers for horses to take the B line).
At the bottom of
Grasshopper Trail, take a right and head along
Sage Ridge - Wide dirt road connector (marked) to
Oak Trail. Take a right onto
Oak Trail and start climbing again. Stay on
Oak Trail for about 0.75 miles until you see a marker on your left for
Peralta Hills. Turn left onto
Peralta Hills. This is another rocky downhill with steep and loose sections and a short steep uphill in the first half. It is also labeled as Difficult.
At the bottom of
Peralta Hills, take a left onto
Wilderness Trail (marked) and the next left onto
Bobcat Meadow - Wide dirt road connector. Stay on
Bobcat Meadow - Wide dirt road connector until you see
Mountain Goat trail on your left. Climb
Mountain Goat (Difficult, consisting of one rocky section) for 0.75 miles and 430 feet of elevation gain until you get back to
Barham Ridge.
Take a left onto
Barham Ridge and then if you are ready for some rock drops, take a right for a thrilling ride down
Chutes Ridgeline (Difficult, with rock drops and steep/loose sections) for 0.6 miles back to the bottom of the park or you can go back down
Chutes (which you climbed up), just be sure to yield to uphill traffic. Once at the bottom, you can follow the same route out of the park.
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